South End Is Over Vs. Cheerio Mom

So we weren't the only ones who were ticked at a woman's comment about South End wait staff and how they handle children eating in their restaurant. Let's reflect on what the woman said:

Well, the entire article brought The South End Is Over out of hibernation, and the blogger is pissed. As we said before, wait staff are there to serve, but asking them to clean up the Cheerios messy little critters leave behind is above and beyond.

The South End is Over confirms that statement in a big way:

Another yummy mummy explained that now, "you can leave Cheerios under the table and the waitstaff never seems to mind." The hell they don't! An informal poll of a few friends who are servers in some South End restaurant/yupporiums has revealed that NONE of them agreed with that statement. Not long ago, I had the displeasure if sitting next to a table of about 3 toddlers at a normal adult dinner time at Picco. By the time the meal was finished, the table looked as if a some combination of fingerpainting class and drive-by shooting had taken place.... Of course the yuppies left the table without making any effort to clean any part of the mess they made, two of them even laughed about the situation as they walked away.

The entire debate blows open the little matter of privilege in the South End. It's the South End, not Versailles. There's the obvious effect of people being priced out of the neighborhood, but do the new people moving in really have to rub it in? Should they be a bit more aware of their surroundings? Just a little? We're not saying the Cheerio Mom is bad, but she doesn't seem fully cognizant of the city around her. The wait staff is there to clean up after a meal, not after the standard messes that babies leave behind. That's a parent's job.

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